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<div>Local government regions in England can be very confusing. For
public rights of way the responsibility of legally collating these on
the Definitive Map and Statement lies with those regions that are
“surveying authorities”. This is the same as the 152
(151 if you exclude the “City of London”) Local Authorities listed in
the Principal Authorities table:</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_England" target="_blank"><font color="blue" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><u>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_England</u></span></font></a></span></font></div>
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<div>As shown, “Bedfordshire” is no longer a surveying authority and
this is why you get PRoW data from both “Bedford” and “Central
Bedfordshire”. If this is understood then we shouldn’t need to tag the
local authority as it can be determined from the geography.</div>
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<div>Similarly Torbay is its own surveying authority and hence it is excluded from Devon’s data.</div>
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<div>Hope this helps,</div>
<div>Rob</div>
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<div>p.s. the 32 London borough, plus CoL do not have to collate PRoW data.</div></span></font></div>